Sentences with phrase «marginal seats support»

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I decided to commission my own research to establish the real state of public opinion: the true level of support for the parties, the underlying attributes associated with each, whether the picture in marginal seats really was different to that in Britain as a whole, whether the Conservatives» 164 - seat battleground made sense, and why the candidates I was helping to fund were finding it so hard to build support.

After yesterday's Channel 4 News poll showing plummeting Conservative support in key marginal seats, leading Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle emails colleagues to describe his «despair» at his party's election campaign.

«The UKIP threat is draining Tory support in key marginal seats so much that the party could let Ed Miliband into Downing Street, according to a poll released today by Lord Ashcroft, former deputy chairman of the Conservative party.

In most other marginal seats, the Tory vote is being ebbed away by a combination of both this Labour rise, Lib Dem collapse and the post-2010 surge in UKIP support.

But Labour lost control of Derby, where the Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Chris Williamson is an MP, and lost Nuneaton and Bedworth, classic Westminster marginal territory, for only the second time in 44 years after the Tories gained eight seats.

The Tories» shift to the right is the reason Lib Dems are maintaining support in Tory marginals, with an average of just two per cent slipping to the Tories in Lord Ashcroft's selection of target seats.

But today they need the support of other parties to control Leeds and Bradford, and Westminster seats that they either already held or were marginal are now not even remote possibilities.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

I will also show some new analysis of my recent polling in marginal seats, which should help us understand the voters who supported us in 2010 but are currently reluctant to do so next time.

We find that Conservative support is holding up better in its key marginal seats than the rest of the country, and also that the Liberal Democrats are recovering strongly, albeit from a low base, in the seats they are defending.

If Corbyn's young support is concentrated among ethnic minorities and the university educated, that will only help him in certain marginals - most seats with lots of ethnic minorities, university students or metropolitan young professionals are already safely Labour.

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

He has focused throughout on winning support in the marginal seats that will decide the outcome.

The analysis concludes that the party has piled up votes in parts of the country where it would make little difference in a general election, while losing support in key marginal seats.

Shapps appointed Clarke, a failed parliamentary candidate, in June 2014 to run RoadTrip2015 — in which young activists were bussed around the country to rally support in marginal seats — despite reviewing Clarke's candidate file, which detailed allegations of aggressive and bullying behaviour when he stood in Tooting in 2010, the report said.

A major feature — not always recognised by commentators — of the 2015 election was a substantial reduction in the number of marginal seats, largely as a consequence of the collapse in support for the Liberal Democrats.

Conservative backbenchers were expressing fears on Saturday that Ukip — which leapfrogged the Conservatives into second place in Thursday's Eastleigh byelection — represents a serious threat to their support not just in the south of England but also in the north, where the Tories face a struggle to defend a number of key marginal seats at the 2015 general election.

Politics: Unlike the other two Lewisham seats with their past history of being Lab - Con marginals, Deptford has a long history of very solid Labour support.

Where the standard seats were fine in the stock CR - Z the added lateral loading this car can produce made them marginal for lateral support of some drivers and riders.